Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

Orbot is the only app that creates a truly private internet connection. As the New York Times writes, “when a communication arrives from Tor, you can never know where or whom it’s from.” Tor won the 2012 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award.

★ ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES: Orbot is the safest way to use the Internet on Android. Period. Orbot bounces your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like VPNs and proxies. This process takes a little longer, but the strongest privacy and identity protection available is worth the wait.★ PRIVATE WEB SURFING: Use with Orweb, the most anonymous way to access any website, even if it’s normally blocked, monitored, or on the hidden web. Get Orweb: https://goo.gl/s3mLa★ PRIVATE CHAT MESSAGING: Use Gibberbot with Orbot to chat confidentially with anyone, anywhere for free. Get Gibberbot: https://goo.gl/O3FfS★ PRIVACY FOR APPS: Any installed app can use Tor if it has a proxy feature, using the settings found here: https://goo.gl/2OA1y Use Orbot with Twitter, or try private web searching with DuckDuckGo: https://goo.gl/lgh1p★ PRIVACY FOR EVERYONE: Tor can help you confidentially research a competitor, get around the Facebook block at school, or circumvent a firewall to watch sports at work.★ PRIVACY MADE EASY: Check out our fun, interactive walkthrough: https://guardianproject.info/howto/browsefreely★ IT’S OFFICIAL: This is the official version of the Tor onion routing service for Android.

***Expert Root Mode***★ UNIVERSAL MODE: Orbot can be configured to transparently proxy all of your Internet traffic through Tor. You can also choose which specific apps you want to use through Tor.

***Disclaimer***The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org

v14.1.0-14.1.3 / 24-Nov-2014* changes to improve longevity of background service/Tor process* add layout tweaks for v21* improves in start/stop logic for background service* FIX: New build to fix Polipo/Orweb related proxy error problems* FIX: Fix for start on boot for some HTC devices and when on external storage* Total rewrite of background service management, which seems much more reliable* Update to Tor 0.2.5.10

Comments and ratings for Orbot: Proxy with Tor

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by Alex N. on 12/12/2014

On my tablet it asks for bypass proxy? I typed in localhost but it won't allow me to modify my wifi. Idk, need help.

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by Anoop Ramakrishna on 11/12/2014

Keep seeing the PIE exception on Nexus 4 with lollipop, is there a known solution?

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by Nicholas Petersen on 11/12/2014

I could not connect to the internet when this was turned on. I found out the problem was the iptables so I switched them back to default. It looked like it was working but when I checked my ip address it still showed my real location. This app is 100% garbage.